4. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

5. “A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deny the least syllable of thy addition.”
― Shakespeare, King Lear

6. “She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say ‘when.'”
― P.G. Wodehouse

7. “The dress looked like it had been sown in a rage and put on in a tempest”
― Oscar Wilde, from The Picture of Dorian Gray

8. “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

9. “A strange horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare’s day.”
― Queen Victoria (1819-1901), about King Lear

10. “An unmanly sort of man whose love-life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.”
― W. H. Auden, about Edgar Allan Poe

This gave me a huge amount of giggling – I agree with James@^ Oscar Wildes caustic wit usually makes me laugh, however Twain always has the ability to give me joke :) Thank you for sharing.

And I applaud the Icelandic People and the way they stuck two fingers to the IMF – If what we in the UK are being told is indeed true (and who knows with the lack of real news nowadays). UK is full of armchair protesters unfortunately :/